So Piotr, if I understand you well it is about the question how many of the
people who are our contributors according to the statistics (per 5 edits
a month, or 100 edits a month) are actually vandals? I could imagine that
some vandals manage to make 5 edits before being blocked, or lose interest
I think a rough analysis user / IP talk pages could give you a number
pretty quickly. You probably would want to do it by hand first and then
write a script that analyses the wikipedia dump file. It is doable by hand,
if you just sub-sample a few hundred pages randomly. And if normalized by a
Hi everyone,
Another question: do we have an estimate of a vandal population?
I also asked this at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#How_many_editors_are_blocked_indefinitely.3F
but so far no good estimates have been provided.
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
Hello Piotr,
I believe that in Chinese Wikipedia, blocked indefinitely is a user
category called Wikipedians that are blocked indefinitely 被永久封禁的維基人
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:%E8%A2%AB%E6%B0%B8%E4%B9%85%E5%B0%81%E7%A6%81%E7%9A%84%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E4%BA%BA
Its equivalent Wikidata
I know of the categories, but the problem is that they do not seem to be
comprehensive. I can estimate, based on them, that there are at least
150k or so editors who were banned for vandalism, but it seems many
vandals do not make it into those categories, suggesting this number is
On 29.09.2013 10:04, Piotr Konieczny wrote:
I know of the categories, but the problem is that they do not seem to
be comprehensive. I can estimate, based on them, that there are at
least 150k or so editors who were banned for vandalism, but it seems
many vandals do not make it into those
